Tara

taracomics.substack.com/p/next-year?... well done karure!

May your Labour Day be easy and hail free.

Congratulations @pipadam.bsky.social

Sexy orange voting guy.

Kākā portraits.

Thanks to everyone surfacing this in my skyline I went in and looked for the setting, couldn't find it, reloaded Libby and there it was! Glad to be able to turn this off, even if publishers and authors are maybe being dishonest little shits about it. It's better than nothing.

grave-offerings.ghost.io/how-the-city... I'm really enjoying this series of essays.

Sometimes the world is great.

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

“Everyone was in town for the wheat / Convention. Kansas City, Power / And Light.” Read “Sensual Songs for Eight-Year-Olds,” a poem by Patricia Lockwood from the collection Agate Head / Stone Soup. buff.ly/NdOlxXJ

Drawings about drawers on my Substack.

I do hope everyone from overseas who has been participating in Bird of the Year appreciates just where the winners, Karure, live. There was a whole lot of logistics involved in bringing them back from one breeding pair. www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

taracomics.substack.com/p/friends?ut... More of a situationship. #birdoftheyear

taracomics.substack.com/p/hog?utm_so... Takahē says no!

Today our prime minister was told a major cost of living crisis is harming the people he governs, and he responded, “Cry me a river”. Aotearoa, please show this man that trying to sound like America’s all-time worst president isn’t how you win elections here. #nzpol

Nearly at the end of our #birdoftheyear campaign taracomics.substack.com/p/ride?utm_s...

taracomics.substack.com/p/thwump?utm... Rmember to vote takahē.

More mammal questions for #birdoftheyear taracomics.substack.com/p/mammal?r=2...

I think that's enough, but I will add three more things. First, we are creating ever larger piles of privately owned financial assets - overwhelmingly held by the richest few. The people holding those assets expect a return - and that return comes from the real economy. We all pay for it. [11/n]

Takahē is holding strong in fifth place for #birdoftheyear

It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.

Titipounamu and takahē encounter a pair of meanies while on campaign for #birdoftheyear taracomics.substack.com/p/bullies?r=...

I have a new free to read Substack post up where I get on my soapbox about the National Party using AI to generate graphics and cartoons: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/orange-vot...

Vote takahē for Bird of the Year: www.birdoftheyear.org.nz#voting

No manu wants to be endangered. Vote takahē for #birdoftheyear taracomics.substack.com/p/endangered...

Takahē for #birdoftheyear (humans are odd). taracomics.substack.com/p/watching?r...

Our interlude with the hoiho concludes. Remember to vote takahē! #birdoftheyear taracomics.substack.com/p/a-third-ti...

Apologies to all hoiho named Hamish. Have you voted for the takahē for #birdoftheyear yet? taracomics.substack.com/p/hamish?r=2...

89 cheers for takahē!! 🎉 Of more than 4000 literary magazines worldwide, takahē is proud to have been awarded 89th place on the 2026 Fish List!

Which Invasive bird has your vote for Bird of the Year 2026? You can read up on their policies here: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/bird-of-th...

Join @taracomics.bsky.social’s comic about Takahē’s quest for bird of the year. In the latest installment Titipounamu meets Hoiho taracomics.substack.com/p/you-got-this

The quest for answers continues. #birdoftheyear taracomics.substack.com/p/you-got-th...

I’m sitting at a coffee shop patio in Berkeley answering a bunch of work emails, and gotta shout out the random old man in a wizard cloak who just ambled past me down the sidewalk, looked me over, and went “ohhhh…a NON BI NARY. Awwwwlriiiiiiighhhhtttttttt”

The hoiho has won twice. #birdoftheyear taracomics.substack.com/p/hoiho?r=2n...

Wonderful launch speech by the editor of @pipadam.bsky.social’s kluge, Jasmine Sargent: “As an editor, I was transformed over the course of this book” teherengawakapress.co.nz/blogs/news/a...

Why does titipounamu want takahē to win? #birdoftheyear taracomics.substack.com/p/choice?r=2...

"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."